[PLUG] Should XFree86 work with Radeon 7500?

Kenneth G. Stephens kens at cad2cam.com
Wed Mar 19 20:16:02 UTC 2003


On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 21:19, David Fleck wrote:
> I had a painful experience trying to upgrade my X server this past
> weekend, and was wondering if anyone had any insights.
> 
> I was running XFree86 v4.2 on a system with an ATI Radeon 7500 without
> problems, and decided to upgrade to 4.3 once I noticed the new ports
> available. (As a side note here, I should mention that I'm using FreeBSD
> (4.6), which has a package management system - the 'ports' system - that
> allows the user to download and compile new software from source.  This is
> the standard way to upgrade software on FreeBSD.)

> David Fleck
> dcf at aracnet.com

Did you go to the www.ati.com site and get its driver for Linux?  You
might have to recompile it for the 4.3 XFree86.

Ken





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